On Sunday, skywatchers were able to observe a full moon, 14 % bigger and 30 % brighter than usual, closest to the earth and visully largest in the year of 2013.

Around 7:32 a.m. EDT, the moon came within 222,000 miles from Earth and turned full. On the horizon, the super moon was illuminated as abnormally large and sometimes red.

The moon will not be as close as this Sunday until August 2014.

"More often than not, the closest perigee of the year comes on the one day of the year, that of the full Moon. This time period is equal to about 1 year, 1 month, and 18 days. The full Moon and perigee will realign again on August 10, 2014, because it is the 14th full moon after the the 23rd June, 2013 full moon," Professor S N Jaffery from Mohanlal Sukhadia University in Rajasthan explained, according to Udaipur Times.

Time-lapse video of the Supermoon rising over the New York City skyline